Description
The Ada Hayden (Iowa State University) Herbarium has the largest collection of Iowa plants and fungi, containing over 600,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens. This dataset describes 24,775 specimens from the Plantae collection. For the Fungi collection, please see iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/4b92de1f-866d-4b82-af69-37d46753f289).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 24,775 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Lewis D (2022): Iowa State University Herbarium. v1.8. United States Geological Survey. Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.herbarium.iastate.edu
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 08fa9dda-6ad2-49c5-8e49-c20058214268. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Metadata; Metadata; North America (continent); United States (nation); State of Iowa; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator, Ada Hayden Herbarium
- Metadata Provider
- biologist and information scientist
- 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, Mailstop 302
- +1 703-648-4281
- Point Of Contact
- Director, Ada Hayden Herbarium
Geographic Coverage
The state of Iowa.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [40.397, -96.614], North East [43.485, -90.154] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
541 plant names at the Genus level and below (mostly species).
| Genus | Carex |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1813-01-01 / 2012-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University (ISC) |
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| Collection Identifier | urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15619 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
Additional Metadata
Georeferenced coordinates that are provided are calculated centroids that were added during data processing by USGS BISON based on provided county names, and mentioned in georeferenceRemarks. County FIPS codes were derived during data cleaning and appear in the higherGeographyID field.
| Alternative Identifiers | 08fa9dda-6ad2-49c5-8e49-c20058214268 |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/nxs7hw | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=iowa-herbarium |